Human rights group says Israel conducts apartheid-like policy on West Bank

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Human rights group says Israel conducts apartheid-like policy on West Bank roads


Associated Press
August 9, 2004

JERUSALEM - Israel systematically discriminates against Palestinian vehicles on West Bank roads, creating a policy that has "many similarities" to the former apartheid regime in South Africa, an Israeli human rights group charged Monday.

A report published by the B'tselem group said Israel bans or strictly controls Palestinian vehicles on more than 700 kilometers (430 miles) of West Bank roads, many of them major thoroughfares.

The Israeli army disputed the charges.

B'tselem said Palestinian vehicles were banned from 120 kilometers (78 miles) of West Bank roads, needed special permits on 245 kilometers (156 miles), and were discouraged by the application of selective traffic ticketing policies and other discriminatory measures from traveling on an additional 365 kilometers (230 miles).

B'tselem spokesman Noam Hoffstater said the Israeli policy amounted to deliberate discrimination in favor of the 230,000 Jewish settlers who live amid more than 2.1 million Palestinians in the West Bank...........

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1. deliberate discrimination

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